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Name	Detail	File number	Level
Former Crossley's Building Job Warehouse 54 - 62 Bourke Street,, MELBOURNE VIC 3000 - Property No B4330	This building was erected 1848-9 and there were alterations and additions to number 54 in 1853. The building, which forms an interesting section of streetscape, stretches from Crossley Street, to Liverpool Street and is still mainly in its original very simple form, except for alterations to shop windows and pediment. Numbers 60-62 were built by William Crossley, a well-known butcher, as a shop, slaughter yard and residence. The distinguished landscape painter, Eugene von Guerard, ... more	B4330	Local
T & G Building Temperance & General Building 141 - 165 Collins Street,, MELBOURNE VIC 3000 - Property No B3935	One of Melbourne's first large volume office buildings. The offices of the Temperance and General Life Assurance Society were constructed in three stages: 1928 - 29, 1939 and 1959. The architects were A & K Henderson. It was described as "Melbourne's most beautiful building" in a competition run by the Herald in 1930 and remains a visible demonstration of the strength of Australian commerce in the inter-war period. Classified: 09/07/1987	B3935	Regional
Michael's Building 265 - 269 Elizabeth Street,, MELBOURNE VIC 3000 - Property No B6266	Michael's Corner Building is of architectural significance at a state level because of its early use of a concrete structural system, its lack of ornamentation and the ratio of window to wall, a ratio which presaged the architecture of later decades. Built by W H Murphy in 1915 for Emanuel Michael, pawnbroker and jeweller, to the designs of Beaver & Purnell, architects. The building is three storeys, with extensive glazed areas, some of which project. The corner bay ... more	B6266	State
Chemistry Building - University Of Melbourne Masson Road,, PARKVILLE VIC 3010 - Property No B6755	The Chemistry Building is of state historical and architectural significance as a distinctive modern interpretation of a collegiate Gothic style. The building was designed in the modern Gothic style by Percy Everett in 1938. Its cream brickwork, bold massing and tower decoration are notable. The Chemistry Building forms part of a major phase of expansion at the University in the 1920's and 1930's. It also demonstrates the importance given by the university to the opinions of a ... more	B6755	State
Royal Exhibition Building & Josef Hochgurtel Fountain Nicholson Street,, CARLTON VIC 3053 - Property No B0842	The Exhibition Building was constructed in 1879-1880 for the 1880-1 Melbourne International Exhibition. International Exhibitions were associated with the boom in manufacturing and the development of a world economy during the nineteenth century. The exhibitions provided a means of displaying contemporary achievements in the arts and commerce as well as manufacturing. A competition to design the Melbourne Exhibition Buildings was held in 1878 and was won by Reed & Barnes, ... more	B0842	International
Nicholas Building & Cathedral Arcade 27 - 41 Swanston Street,, MELBOURNE VIC 3000 - Property No B4079	The Nicholas Building, situated on the corner of Swanston Street and Flinders Lane, was built by F E Shillabeer & Sons in 1926 to a design by the architect Harry Norris. The building originally contained eight floors of office accommodation, with shopping arcades on the first and ground floors and retail accommodation in the large basement. This classification does not include the later 1939 extension. Norris took the advantage of corner siting to display the dominant outlook ... more	B4079	Local
Former B.P. Administration Building, Western Port Refinery The Esplanade,, CRIB POINT VIC 3919 - Property No B6524	Designed by Melbourne architect Don Hendry Fulton and completed in 1965, the former BP Administration Building is of architectural significance at a State Level as being a period exemplar of Mid-1960s small-scale office building design acclaimed by the architectural profession at the time of its design; as indicitive of a multi-national corporation in the 1960s seeking a high quality public image for its second major Australian industrial plant; and stylistically as representing the ... more	B6524	State
St Joseph's Building - Good Shepherd Convent 2 Clarke Street, ABBOTSFORD VIC 3067 - Property No B3718	Demolished	B3718	Demolished
Mundarra Homestead & Outbuildings EDENHOPE VIC 3318 - Property No B5491		B5491	File only
Railway Buildings Station Street,, TARADALE VIC 3447 - Property No B3931	The station building at Taradale was constructed in 1862-63 for the Victorian Railways Department. The bluestone building consists of a single storey office and waiting facilities at one end and a two storey residence at the other. Timber additions to the residence have been added which overlook the station master's yard and the bluestone lamp room/toilet block at the other end. A bluestone goods shed of a unique design is situated at the north end of the platform. A ... more	B3931	State

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